A Guide to the Glasscock (Stephen Coleman) Papers,
1839-1865.

The Stephen Coleman Glasscock Papers,
1839-1865, document the career of Glasscock as a Texas Ranger and Confederate
officer and include an 1839 poem and 1842 letter to Miss Margaret B. Carr of
Springfield, Tennessee from L.H. Wilson of Crittenden County, Kentucky.

Stephen Coleman Glasscock of Bastrop County, Texas, served as a Ranger in Hay’s Texas
Mounted Volunteer Regiment during the Mexican War before being discharged in 1847.
In 1862, Glasscock was commissioned as a Jr. 2nd Lieutenant in the Confederate Army
and served until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

The Stephen Coleman Glasscock Papers, 1839-1865, document the career of Glasscock as
a Texas Ranger and Confederate officer. The papers include a commission for
Glasscock to Jr. 2nd Lieutenant in the Confederate army, an 1855 bill of sale for a
slave, field notes of an 1856 land survey, and an honorable discharge for Glasscock
from the Texas Mounted Volunteers in 1847. The papers also consist of an 1839 poem
and letter dated June 13, 1842, to Miss Margaret B. Carr of Springfield, Tennessee
from L.H. Wilson of Crittenden County, Kentucky.